At a building complex in Xiangyang where a facial recognition gate system has been installed, a problem with bike theft ceased entirely, according to building management.

Summary: Osaka [Japan], Dec.15 (ANI): Panasonic Corporation announced today that its facial recognition gate has been chosen by the Immigration Bureau of the Ministry of Justice to streamline immigration procedures at a major Japanese airport in an easy and secure fashion.

The automated passport recognition gates rarely work!

Mr Vine also called for the UKBA to evaluate the benefits of technology such as facial recognition gates after inspectors found they were "not operational for a significant period of time".

ldp FOR News, Sport Business on your phone Mr Vine also called for the UKBA to evaluate the actual benefits of new technology such as facial recognition gates after inspectors found they were "not operational for a significant period of time".

UK Border Agency assistant director, Alex Lawther, said: "The new facial recognition gates here at Birmingham will improve our service to the public, processing passengers securely and freeing officers to focus their time on other areas of risk."

Passengers are being urged to use facial recognition gates at airports after a successful trial of the technology.

The new facial recognition gates will use scanning equipment to compare the faces of travellers at the airport, which welcomed 5.5m passengers last year, to their biometric passports.

He was also shown arriving passengers going through new electronic facial recognition gates.

As yet there are only five facial recognition gates at the airport's Terminal One, though about 80,000 passengers pass through every day.